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Animal Name: Blue Crab
General Description: Has 10 legs, 2 are paddle shaped, can be gray/green with blue claws

Describe the habitat: Found often in estuaries, and from the coast of MA to South America.
Describe the niche: Scavenger--favorite food is mollusk but will eat plants and fish, too.
Describe an interesting fact about your animal: May eat another blue crab!

Photo and info from http://www.fisheries.vims.edu/femap/fish%20pages/Blue%20Crab.htm[[http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/pages/anglerfish.html|]]